The roads you grew up on weren't just faster routes — they were destinations.
The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on June 29 of that year, funded the Interstate Highway System. Joining this transcontinental system, the Interregional ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - August 2, 1956. What we now know as Interstate 44 and Interstate 70 were actually historic milestones for both Missouri and the greater United States.
The story of America’s interstates is usually told as a straightforward tale of postwar progress, but the real origins are stranger and more contested than the green signs suggest. The Dwight D.